Tuesday, June 21, 2011

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the authors of the year's best works of fiction by living American citizens. The winner receives US $15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US $5000. Finalists read from their works at the presentation ceremony in the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.. The organization claims it to be "the largest peer-juried award in the country." The award was first given in 1981.

The PEN/Faulkner Foundation is an outgrowth of William Faulkner's generosity in using his 1949 Nobel Prize winnings to create the William Faulkner Foundation; among the charitable goals of the foundation was "to establish a fund to support and encourage new fiction writers." The foundation's first award for a "notable first novel," called the William Faulkner Foundation Award, was granted to John Knowles's A Separate Peace in 1961
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Mary Lee Settle was one of the founders of the PEN/Faulkner award after controversy at the 1979 National Book Award, when PEN voted a boycott on the ground that they were too commercial. It is affiliated with the writers' organization International PEN. The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world.

2012 – Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
Russell Banks, Lost Memory of Skin
Don DeLillo, The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
Anita Desai, The Artist of Disappearance
Steven Millhauser, We Others: New and Selected Stories

2011 – Deborah Eisenberg,
The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Good Squad
Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule
Eric Puchner, Model Home
Brad Watson, Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives

1993 – E. Annie Proulx, Postcards
Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Francisco Goldman, The Long Night of White Chickens
Maureen Howard, Natural History
Sylvia Watanabe, Talking to the Dead

1986 – Peter Taylor, The Old Forest and Other Stories
William Gaddis, Carpenter’s Gothic
Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
Hugh Nissenson, The Tree of Life
Helen Norris, The Christmas Wife
Grace Paley, Later the Same Day

1984 – John Edgar Wideman, Sent for You Yesterday
Ron Hansen, The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
William Kennedy, Ironweed
Jamaica Kincaid, At the Bottom of the River
Bernard Malamud, The Stories
Cynthia Ozick, The Cannibal Galaxy

Design/Illustration
Building One Fire—designed by Carol Haralson—The Cherokee Nation
Proud to be Chickasaw—designed by Skip McKinstry, illustrated by Mike Larsen—Chickasaw Press
Oklahoma National Stockyards—designed by Doug Miller—Mullerhaus Publishing Arts, Inc.
Portrait of a Generation: The Children of Oklahoma, Sons and Daughters of the Red Earth—designed by Scott O’Daniel, photography by M.J. Alexander—Southwestern Publishing
Arena Legacy: The Heritage of American Rodeo—designed by Tony Roberts and Julie Rushing, collection photography by Ed Muno—University of Oklahoma Press

Non-fiction
Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe—Kate Buford
Chickasaw Removal—Fuller L. Bumpers, Daniel F. Littlefield Jr., and Amanda L. Paige
Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture—edited by Dianna Everett, Jon May, Larry O’Dell, and Linda Wilson
Deadly Kingdom: The Book of Dangerous Animals—Gordon Grice
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History—S.C. Gwynne—Scribner
Race and the University: A Memoir—George Henderson—University of Oklahoma Press
Arena Legacy: The Heritage of American Rodeo—Richard C. Rattenbury
Luis Ortega’s Rawhide Artistry: Braiding in the California Tradition—Don Reeves and Chuck Stormes
Oilfield Trash: Life and Labor in the Oil Patch—Bobby D. Weaver—Texas A&M University Press

The Louisiana Literary Award was established by the Louisiana Library Association in 1948 and was presented for the first time in 1949. It is intended to "promote interest in books about Louisiana and to encourage their production." A primary criterion for selection is that books contribute to the permanent record of the State of Louisiana.

2009
Fourteen authors from 12 countries have been named to the shortlist for the £60,000 ($85,716) Man Booker international prize, which is "awarded once every two years to a writer for their contribution to fiction on the world stage," according to the Guardian.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

The Warwick Prize for Writing was launched in 2008 and is an innovative literature prize that involves global competition, and crosses all disciplines. The Prize will be given every two years for an excellent and substantial piece of writing in the English language, in any genre or form, on a theme which will change with every award. The winner of the inaugural Prize was announced on 24 February 2009 as Naomi Klein for The Shock Doctrine.

Peter Forbes won of the £50,000 (US$81,248) Warwick Prize for Writing for his book Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage. The biennial prize from the University of Warwick "is an international cross-disciplinary award open to any genre or form of writing."

The finalists will meet with the fiction judges on March 15, and the winner, as well as the $25,000 Choice Award given to the first runner-up, will be announced shortly thereafter. The 2011 award ceremony will be held May 31.

2010 finalists for the fourth annual Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature are:
Lila Corwin Berman–Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity
Ari Y. Kelman – Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio in the United States
Kenneth B. Moss – Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution -Winner!
Danya Ruttenberg – Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion
Sarah Abrevaya Stein – Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce -Winner!

2009 Prize
Sana Krasikov's debut short story collection, One More Year: Stories, has won the 2009 $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for emerging writers.

The $25,000 Sami Rohr Prize Choice Award went to Dalia Sofer, author of The Septembers of Shiraz.

2008 Prize
In 2008, Lucette Lagnado was awarded the first non-fiction Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her book The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

The top 20 book club bestsellers for 2010 from Bookmovement.com based on readers' choices are:

The Help by Kathryn StockettThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de RosnayHotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Next Thing on My List by Jill SmolinskiLittle Bee by Chris Cleave
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth StroutCutting for Stone by Abraham VergheseThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie BarrowsWater for Elephants by Sara GruenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite ClaytonThe Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel BarberyThe 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

op 25 Book Group Books Last Year

The top 25 book group discussion books of 2010, based on reports by book clubs, according to ReadingGroupGuides.com:

1. The Help by Kathryn Stockett2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
4. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay5. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
6. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
7. Little Bee by Chris Cleave
8. A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick9. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein10. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese11. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak12. Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls13. Still Alice by Lisa Genova
14. Shanghai Girls by Lisa See14. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
16. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin
17. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
18. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
19. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
19. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls21. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee22. South of Broad by Pat Conroy23. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski24. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen25. The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

Man Asian Literary Prize is an annual award for an "Asian novel unpublished in English". The Prize was launched in 2007 and is now in its third year. [Then are they published in English?]

The objectives of the Asian Literary Prize are: To bring exciting new Asian authors to the attention of the world literary community; To facilitate publishing and translation of Asian literature in and into English; and To highlight Asia's developing role in world literature.

The Administrative Committee for the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize has today announced the longlist of works for this prize:

Finalists for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction
* Elise Moser, Because I Have Loved and Hidden It
* Lori Ostlund, The Bigness of the World – Winner!
* Rakesh Satyal, Blue Boy

The Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction is presented by the Ferro-Grumley Literary Awards, a co-sponsor of the Triangle Awards ceremony.

Finalists for The Ferro-Grumley Awards for LGBT Fiction
* G. Winston James, Shaming the Devil
* Barb Johnson, More of This World or Maybe Another
* Eleanor Lerman, The Blonde on the Train
* Vestal McIntyre, Lake Overturn
* Jill Malone, A Field Guide to Deception
* Sebastian Stuart, The Hour Between – Winner!

The Publishing Triangle's 21st Annual Triangle Awards--honoring the best lesbian and gay fiction, nonfiction, and poetry published in 2008--were presented last night in New York City).

The Triangle awards winners:
In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story by Andrea Weiss (Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction)

Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay, and Coming of Age on the Streetsof New York by Kai Wright (Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction)

Inaugurated in May 2006, this award recognizes outstanding first novels or story collections by LGBT authors. It is unique among the Triangle Literary Awards, in that women and men compete in the same category. The award is open to first-book authors of any age whose work contains queer themes. Writers can have published works of nonfiction, and their short fiction can have previously appeared in a published anthology. The book nominated must be the author's first work of book-length fiction.

This award honors the distinguished Edmund White, who won the very first Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1990. White is the author, among many other works, of A Boy's Own Story, States of Desire, A Married Man, Fanny, and Arts and Letters. The winner receives $1,000.

TRANSGENDER — Fiction
Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super Tranny, by Justin Hall with Diego Gomez, Fred Noland & Jon Macy
Holding Still for As Long As Possible, by Zoe Whittall House of Anansi Press
Jumpstart the World, by Catherine Ryan Hyde Random House Children’s Books

TRANSGENDER — Nonfiction
Assume Nothing, by Rebecca Swan Soft Skull Press
Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community, edited by Noach Dzmura
The Color of Sunlight, by Michelle Alexander CreateSpace
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, edited by Kate Bornstein & S. Bear Bergman Seal Press
Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality, by Kristen Schilt

LGBT NONFICTION
Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community, edited by Noach Dzmura
Ex-Gay No Way: Survival and Recovery from Sexual Abuse, by Jallen Rix EdD. Findhorn Press
Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature, by Emma Donoghue Alfred A. Knopf [Interview]
King Kong Theory, by Virginie Despentes The Feminist Press
The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools, by Stuart Biegel

LGBT STUDIES
Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism, by Scott Herring New York University Press
Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality, by Gayle Salamon
Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary, by Fran Martin
Citizen Invert Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain, by Deborah Cohler
Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies, Rafael de la Dehesa

LESBIAN FICTION
Big Bang Symphony, by Lucy Jane Bledsoe University of Wisconsin Press
Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle, by Zelda Lockhart LaVenson Press
Holding Still for as Long as Possible, by Zoe Whittall House of Anansi
Homeschooling, by Carol Guess PS Publishing
Inferno (a poet’s novel), by Eileen Myles OR Books [Review]

LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
Blood Strangers: A Memoir, by Katherine A. Briccetti Heyday Books
Hammer!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life, by Barbara Hammer The Feminist Press [Review]
Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer, by Chely Wright Pantheon Books
She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood by Amie Klempnauer
Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures, by Julie Marie Wade Colgate University Press

The 112 finalists in the 23 categories of the 2009 annual Lambda Literary Awards have been announced. Winners will be honored at the 22nd annual awards, to be held May 27 in New York City at the end of BEA.

LGBT STUDIES
* Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality by Regina Kunzel
* Tomboys: A Literary & Cultural History by Michelle Ann Abate
* The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington by Amin Ghaziani
* Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, & the Politics of Progressive Reform by Kevin P. Murphy
* Screening Sex by Linda Williams (Duke University Press)

DRAMA
* I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright (Faber and Faber)
* Fabulous! by Donald Reuter (Broadway)
* How to Make Dances in an Epidemic by David Gere (University of Wisconsin)
* love conjure/blues by Sharon Bridgeforth (RedBone)
* The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance and Musical Theater edited by Claude J. Summers

GAY MEN’S DEBUT FICTION
* Clay’s Way by Blair Mastbaum (Alyson)
* A Son Called Gabriel by Damian McNicholl (CDS)
* Half-Life by Aaron Krach (Alyson)
* How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theater by Mar Acito
* World Famous Love Acts by Brian Leung (Sarabande)

LESBIAN POETRY
* Sweet to Burn by Beverly Burch (Gival)
* Antidotes for an Alibi by Amy King (BlazeVox)
* Femme’s Dictionary by Carol Guess (Calyx)
* The School Among the Ruins by Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton)
* Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver (Beacon)

ROMANCE
* Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger (HarperCollins)
* All the Wrong Places by Karin Kallmaker (Bella)
* Confessions of a Casanova by Chris Kenry (Kensington)
* Gulf Breeze by Gerri Hill (Bella)
* Under the Witness Tree by Marianne Martin (Bywater)

Anthologies/Nonfiction
* The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality In Black Communities edited by Constantine-Simms
* His Hands, His Tools, His Sex, His Dress: Lesbian Writers on Their Fathers edited by Catherine Reid and Holly K. Iglesias
* In a Queer Country edited by Terry Goldie
* Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation edited by Rebecca Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell, and Shirley Idelson
* Out in the Castro edited by Winston Leyland (Leyland)

Gay Men’s Fiction
* The Practical Heart by Allan Gurganus (Knopf)
* The Heart is Deceitful in all Things by JT LeRoy (Bloomsbury)
* In the City of Shy Hunters by Tom Spanbauer (Grove)
* The Marble Quilt by David Leavitt (Houghton Mifflin)
* The Rose City by David Ebershoff (Viking)

GLBT Studies
* Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court by Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price (Basic)
* All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America by Suzanna Danuta Walters
* Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969 by William J. Mann
* The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s edited by Ricardo J. Brown and William Reichard
* Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties by Gay Wachman

Drama
* Hedwig and the Angry Inch by John Cameron Mithcell, music and lyrics by Stephen Trask
* The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told by Paul Rudnick (Overlook)
* Five Lesbian Brothers by Five Lesbian Brothers (Consortium)
* The Beginning of August by Tom Donaghy (Grove)
* I, Carmelita Tropicana by Alina Troyano (Beacon)

Transgender
* The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff (Viking)
* As Nature Made Him by John Colapinto (HarperCollins)
* Trans-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian (Harmony)
* Out of the Ordinary edited by Noelle Hawley and Ellen Samuels (St. Martin’s)
* Are You a Boy or a Girl? by Karleen Pendleton Jimenez (Green Dragon)

Visual Arts
* Faeries by Keri Pickett (Aperture)
* Lesbian Art in America by Harmony Hammond (Rizzoli)
* Stars in My Eyes by Don Bachardy (University of Wisconsin)
* Black and White Men by James Spada (Pond Street)
* As I See It by Greg Gorman (powerHouse)

Anthologies/Nonfiction
* Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia edited by Steve Hogan and Lee Hudson (Henry Holt)
* This Is What Lesbian Looks Like edited by Kris Kleindienst (Firebrand)
* A Woman Like That edited by Joan Larkin
* Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics edited by Larry Gross and James D. Woods
* Fighting Words edited by Charles Michael Smith

Children’s/Young Adult
* Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger (Simon & Schuster)
* Dare Truth or Promise by Paula Boock
* Name Me Nobody by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
* The Blue Lawn by William Taylor
* The Year They Burned the Books by Nancy Garden

Drama
* What I Meant Was by Craig Lucas (TCG)
* Corpus Christi by Terrence McNally
* Lovesick edited by Laurence Senelick
* Of All the Nerve by Deb Margolin
* Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism by Steven Watson

Gay Men’s Biography/Autobiography
* The Velveteen Father by Jesse Green (Villard)
* An Underground Life by Gad Beck
* Firebird: A Memoir by Mark Doty
* Gore Vidal by Fred Kaplan
* Left Out: The Politics of Exclusion by Martin Duberman

Gay Men’s Mystery
* Justice at Risk by John Morgan Wilson (Doubleday)
* Drop Dead by Mark Zubro
* Innuendo by R.D. Zimmerman
* The Death of a Constant Lover by Lev Raphael
* The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse by Keith Hartman

Gay Men’s Studies
* Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts by James Saslow
* Men Like That: A Southern Queer History by John Howard
* The Crisis of Desire by Robin Hardy and David Groff
* The Mismeasure of Desire by Edward Stein
* Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel Delany

Lesbian Studies
* To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America by Lillian Faderman
* A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America by Leila J. Rupp
* Eden Built by Eves by Bonnie Morris
* Strange Sisters by Jaye Zimet
* Whole Lesbian Sex Book by Felice Newman

Photography/Visual Arts
* Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts by James Saslow
* The Homoerotic Art of Pavel Tchelitchev by David Leddick
* John Singer Sargent: The Male Nudes by John Esten and Donna Hassler
* Strange Sisters by Jaye Zimet
* The Drag King Book by Del LaGrace Volcano and Judith Halberstam

Children
* Telling Tales Out of School by Kevin Jennings (Alyson)
* I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block (HarperCollins)
* Lucy Goes to the Country by Joseph Kennedy, illustrated by John Canemaker
* Outspoken by Michael Thomas Ford (Morrow Junior)
* Queer 13 by Clifford Chase (Weisbach)

Gay Men’s Biography/Autobiography
* Wisecracker by William J. Mann (Viking)
* Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years by Norman Page (St. Martin’s)
* The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up by Andrew Tobias (Random House)
* Gentleman Junkie: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs by Graham Caveney (Little Brown)
* In The Flesh by Gavin Geoffrey Dillard (Barricade)

Humor
* Alec Baldwin Doesn’t Love Me and Other Trials of My Queer Life by Michael Thomas Ford
* Don’t Get Me Started by Kate Clinton (Ballantine)
* The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
* Savage Love by Dan Savage (Dutton)
* Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)

Lesbian Biography/Autobiography
* The Indelible Alison Bechdel; Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out for by Alison Bechdel
* A Fragile Union by Joan Nestle (Cleis)
* Empty Without You by Rodger Streitmatter (The Free Press)
* The Queen of Whale Cay by Kate Summerscale (Viking)
* Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John by Sally Cline (Overlook)

Children’s/Young Adult
* The House You Pass On the Way by Jacqueline Woodson (Delacorte)
* The Shared Heart by Adam Mastoon (William Morrow)
* Amy Asks a Question: Grandma, What’s a Lesbian? by Jeanne Arnold
* Blue Coyote by Liza Ketchum (Simon & Schuster)
* Sanctuary: a Tale of Life in the Woods by Paul Monette (Scribner)

Drama
* Gross Indecency: the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moises Kaufman (Vintage)
* Monsters in the Closet edited by Harry M. Benshoff (Manchester University)
* Three Plays by Mae West by Lillian Schlissel (Routledge)
* Porcelain & A Language of Their Own edited by Chay Yew (Grove)
* Rent by Jonathan Larson (Rob Weisbach)

Editor’s Choice
* Billy’s Boy by Patricia Nell Warren (Wildcat)

Gay Men’s Biography/Autobiography

* The Poetry of Healing by Rafael Campo (W.W. Norton)
* A House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay by Felice Picano (Faber & Faber)
* Track Conditions by Michael Klein (Persea)
* Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow to Self by Mark Thompson (St. Martin’s)
* Walt Whitman: a Gay Life by Gary Schmidgall (Dutton)

Gay Men’s Studies
* Boys Like Us edited by Patrick Merla (Avon)
* Cracks in the Iron Closet by David Tuller (Faber & Faber)
* Farm Boys edited by Will Fellows (University of Wisconsin)
* One More River to Cross by Keith Boykin (Anchor)
* Radically Gay edited by Harry Hay and Will Roscoe (Beacon)

Gay Men’s Biography/Autobiography
* My Own Country by Abraham Verghese (Simon & Schuster)
* Last Watch of the Night by Paul Monette (Harcourt Brace)
* My Life as a Pornographer by John Preston (Richard Kasak)
* Knowing When to Stop by Ned Rorem (Simon & Schuster)
* Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite by Lawrence Mass (Cassell)

Small Press
* Her Tongue on My Theory by Kiss & Tell (Press Gang)
* B-Boy Blues by James Earl Hardy (Alyson)
* Skin by Dorothy Allison (Firebrand)
* We Came All The Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? by Achy Obejas
* American Dreams by Sapphire (Serpent’s Tail)

Children’s/Young Adult Literature
* The Cat Came Back by Hilary Mullins (Naiad)
* Saturday is Pattyday by Leslea Newman, illustrated by Annette Hegel
* We’re Not Alone by Rik Isensee (Lavender Press)
* Living In Secret by Christina Salat (Bantam)
* Uncle What-Is-It Is Coming To Visit!! written and illustrated by Michael Willhoite

Humor
* Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)
* Hothead Paisan by Diane DiMassa (Cleis)
* Whores of Lost Atlantis by Charles Busch (Hyperion)
* Closet Case by Robert Rodi (Dutton)
* Members of the Tribe by Michael Willhoite (Alyson)

Gay Men’s Anthologies
* A Member of the Family edited by John Preston (E.P. Dutton)
* Men on Men 4 edited by George Stambolian (Plume)
* Discontents edited by Dennis Cooper (Amethyst)
* Flesh and the Word edited by John Preston (E.P. Dutton)
* Here to Dare edited by Assotto Saint (Galiens)

Gay Men’s Mystery
* The Hidden Law by Michael Nava (HarperCollins)
* Final Atonement by Steve Johnson (Onyx)
* Third Man Out by Richard Stevenson (St. Martin’s)
* Love You to Death by Grant Michaels (St. Martin’s)
* One for the Master, Two for the Fool by Larry Townsend (Alyson)

EDITOR’S CHOICE
* Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th Century America by Lillian Faderman

GAY MEN’S ANTHOLOGY
* Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men edited by Essex Hemphill
* Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction edited by Edmund White (Faber & Faber)
* Hometowns: Gay Men Write About Where They Belong edited by John Preston
* Indivisible: New Short Fiction by West Coast Gay & Lesbian Writers Edited by Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton
* Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics and Practice edited by Mark Thompson

GAY MEN’S MYSTERY
* A Country of Old Men by Joseph Hansen (Viking)
* Best Performance by a Patsy by Stan Cutler (E.P. Dutton)
* The Face on the Cutting Room Floor by Stan Cutler (E.P. Dutton)
* Master’s Counterpoints by Larry Townsend (Alyson)
* Sorry Now? by Mark Richard Zubro (St. Martin’s)

GAY MEN’S NONFICTION
* The Zuni Man-Woman by Will Roscoe (University of New Mexico)
* Close To the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz (Vintage)
* Cures: A Gay Man’s Odyssey by Martin Duberman (E.P. Dutton)
* Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard by Roger Austen, edited by John W. Crowley
* Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare’s England by Bruce R. Smith

* Coming Out!: More Fun ‘n’ Games by Elizabeth Dean, Linda Wells, and Andrea Curren
* Strange Angel by Ben Davis (Corona Publishing Co.)
* What I Love about Lesbian Politics Is Arguing with People I Agree With by Kris Kovick
* Women’s Glib: A Collection of Women’s Humor edited by Rosalind Warren

LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY
* Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About edited by Carla Trujillo
* Bi Any Other Name edited by Loraine Hutchins and Lani Kaahumanu (Alyson)
* Indivisible: New Short Fiction by West Coast Gay & Lesbian Writers edited by Terry Wolverton and Robert Drake
* An Intimate Wilderness: Lesbian Writers on Sexuality edited by Judith Barrington
* Lesbians at Midlife: The Creative Transition edited by Barbara Sang, Joyce Warshow, and Adrienne Smith

SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD
* Gay Roots: Twenty Years of Gay Sunshine edited by Winston Leyland
* The Advocate Advisor by Pat Califia (Alyson)
* How Do I Look?: Queer Film and Videos edited by Bad Object-Choices (Bay)
* Putting Out ’91 edited by Edisol W. Dotson (Putting Out)
* Rusty: How Me and Her Went to Colorado and Everything, Except Not Really by Garbo

GAY MEN’S FICTION
* The Body and Its Dangers by Allen Barnett (St. Martin’s)
* Afterlife by Paul Monette (Crown)
* Home At the End of the World by Michael Cunningham (FSG)
* Music I Never Dreamed Of by John Gilgun (Amethyst)
* A Place I’ve Never Been by David Leavitt (Viking)

LESBIAN POETRY
* Going Back to the River by Marilyn Hacker (Random House)
* Chant of the Women of Magdalena by SDiane Bogus (Woman in the Moon)
* Crime Against Nature by Minnie Bruce Pratt (Firebrand)
* A Few Words in the Mother Tongue by Irena Klepfisz (Eighth Mountain)
* Patience of Metal by Yvonne Zipter (Hutchinson House)

SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD
* My Life as a Mole by Larry Mitchell, illustrated by Bill Rice (Calamus Books)
* Matlovich: The Good Soldier by Mike Hippler (Alyson Publications)
* Letting in the Night by Joan Lindau (Firebrand Books)
* Men of Color by Vega Studios (Vega Books)
* River of Promise by Judy Dahl (LuraMedia)